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  • #56 No, I’d Rather Be Distracted

    It’s easier, really.It’s simpler. If I could just chalk it all up to ‘too much’. If my blanket excuse was ‘sorry I’m busy’. It takes the pressure off. The decision is no longer ours. Distracted. We’ve got 1000 things going on, all at the same time. How can we not be? ‘I’ve got to make…

  • #55 You’re Working Pretty Hard Just to Disappoint Your Ancestors

    It’s not really a suggestion. It’s not an idea nor a nice to have, nor a luxury. This is not an optional quality. Humans are designed to be humans, we’re not not built to be robots. To work without joy is to disappointm everyone who’s ever come before you… They all worked to make the…

  • #54/WW #81 Writing: The Obsession to Understand

    I write to make sense of my overly strung out, chaotic, torrential downpour, oasis bringing, tornado creating, storm chasing, whirlwind of a mind. There is an explosion of thought every damn second of the day. It doesn’t stop. There are no breaks. There’s no pauses. My mind works and works and works. The only temporary…

  • #53 Paint the Greek dick, damn it

    Everybody knows 10,000.It’s 10,000 hours after all.Malcolm Gladwell, right? We all know how it works – 10,000 hours in any discipline to achieve ‘True Expertise’, whatever the hell that means. But it seems like we haven’t entirely internalized the idea.We understand it. It makes sense intellectually. But to actually use it? That is a far…

  • #52 Are We All Just Dumb?

    I see it in most Western culture. Granted, that’s where I spend the most time, but I see it in nearly all the cultures I’ve experienced. I’ve seen it in Ireland, Italy, and Iceland, Estonia and other parts of Europe too. We avoid. Everything, all the time. We stop to glance for a second, but…

  • #51 You Can’t Just Solve for X

    Written on Saturday morning, 5/18/24 from my Apartment in Okinawa, Japan. I want it to be sorted. I want it figured out. I need life to make sense. I look at people ahead of me. I think to myself “they’ve got it figured out”. That CEO. That artist. That comedian. They figured it out. But…

  • #50 Fav’ Quotes an’ Sum’ Stories

    Obsessed with ways to live happier, wealthier, more enjoyably. Offering unsolicited advice today! James Clear, Atomic Habits Russ, Stockholm Syndrome Seth from Jiu Jitsu James Clear James Clear Russ, It’s All in Your Head Naval Ravikant, On Envy James Clear 17 years into a D1 gymnastics career, fed up with the bullshit and lack of…

  • #49 Riding the Wave

    Up and down.Back and forth. We keep going and going.And they keep coming. Never ending.Infinite and endless. Positive and negative.Up then you’re down.Hot then you’re cold.Yes, then you’re no…In… then you’re out? We just keep moving. It all comes.And then it goes. We ebb.And we flow. Our feelings. Our confidence. Our friends.Everything. Sometimes it’s up.And…

  • #46 Confusion

    How I feel when I’m living around people who aren’t ambitious and want more for themselves. Don’t really think it’s their fault, they’ve just been lulled into acceptance of what is